Der OECD-Zufiedenheitsindex

The OECD Better Life Index
is an index that attempts to evaluate the well-being in
OECD countries. First published on 24 May 2011, it
includes 11 "topics" of well-being: Housing, Income,
Jobs, Community, Education, Environment, Governance,
Health, Life, Satisfaction, Safety, Work-life balance.
OECD is accepting advices from users about new topics to
add to the Index.

Each topic is built on one to three specific
indicators. In the case of the Work-Life Balance, for example, three
separate measures are considered: the number of employees working
long hours; the percentage of working mothers; and the time people
devote to leisure and personal activities. In the future, new
indicators (describing sustainability of well-being over time) will
be added.

The index received various critics,
including the facts that it only measures the well-being of
individuals, not of the society as a whole. As such it does not show
inequalities in a society.[1]